Hello,
Thank you for contacting the support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
I checked your robots.txt configuration and it seems to be working fine and it should not return any issues for your sitemap.
Adding this sitemap URL (https://www.modish.co.nz/sitemap_index.xml) in your robots file should be enough for Google to recognize it. You don’t have to add the URL *?sitemap=1 as they both generate the same file.
Could you please remove your sitemaps from your Google Search Console and resubmit your primary sitemap (https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml)? After that, give Google some time to recrawl your website and see if the error goes away.
As for your Redirection issue, may I know if this redirection is made by Rank Math?
We are looking forward to helping you with this one.
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for your reply, appreciate it. I’ve removed the sitemaps from GSC and added the one as suggested. GSC says “couldn’t fetch” and “sitemap could not be read”. Will it come right in a few days?
Yes, I have the redirects in Rank Math. There are two re-directs that are not working – they re-direct to my wordpress login page which is a bit strange.
Should I delete and re-enter them?
Thanks
Rich
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
Everything on your website seems to be in a working condition, Your robots.txt is correct, You have no X-robot tag defined. I can reach your website and able to access the sitemap file, I even checked your website on SERPs, One of your URLs is recently indexed, See this screenshot. And also could you please share the screenshot of your GSC?
Looking forward to helping you.
Thanks very much for that. Yes, Google SC seems to be working now – that’s great, thank you!
There are still two redirects in Rank Math (one listed above) that bring up my WordPress login page instead of the new page. I have just deactivated them in Rank Math to see what happens. Maybe there’s a cache I need to flush?
Thanks for you help
Rich
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
I am glad things worked for you.
Could you please share the screenshot of your redirection rules so we can also check in on our end?
Looking forward to helping you.
Thanks for that. There are two not working i.e. the ones without dates in right column of this image https://imageshack.com/i/poyJ6meqp
https://imageshack.com/i/pm61Co9ip
The others seem to be working. Thanks very much – would be great to get these working.
Rich
Hello,
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Thanks I’ll keep that in mind. I have a feeling it might be an issue at Siteground as I remember contacting them 18 months ago to get those exact product pages re-directed. Maybe they have a re-direct stored somewhere other than my htaccess file as I can’t find it in there. I’ll get back to you in a day or two to either close the job or give you access to my WP and ftp.
Hello,
Thank you for getting back to us.
Meanwhile, Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.